Caroline Lind

American rower

Caroline Lind

Lind with her gold medal from the 2012 Olympics

Personal information

Born

(1982-10-11) October 11, 1982 (age 41)
Greensboro, North Carolina, U.S.

Height

6 ft 0 in (183 cm)

Weight

175 lb (79 kg)

Sport

Country

United States

Sport

Rowing

College team

Princeton University

Club

USRowing Training Center

Coached by

Tom Terhaar

Medal record

Women’s Rowing

Representing the United States
Olympic Games
	2008 Beijing	Women's eight
	2012 London	Women's eight
World Championships
	2006 Eton	W8+
	2007 Munich	W8+
	2009 Poznań	W8+
	2011 Bled	W8+
	2013 Chungju	W8+
	2014 Amsterdam	W8+

Caroline Lind (born October 11, 1982) is an American rower, and is a two-time Olympic gold medalist. At the end of 2014 she was ranked #1 female rower by International Rowing Federation.^[1]

Rowing career

Lind won gold in the Women's eight for the US in the 2012 Olympics and 2008 Olympics. She has been a member of the W8+ boat in World competitions since 2006. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Lind won a gold medal as a member of the women's eight team. It was the first gold medal for the American women's eight team since 1984. Four years later at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Lind again won gold as a member of the women's eight team. She has won World Championship titles in 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, and 2014 in the Women's eight. In 2014, Lind with her W8+ teammates from 2008 Olympics was inducted into the US Rowing Hall of Fame. In 2014, Lind was named Athlete of the Year by the New York Athletic Club. She featured in an article by the International Rowing Federation (FISA) on how the pain barrier is broken in competitive rowing.^[2]

Education and background

Lind graduated from Phillips Academy in 2002. In 2003, she became a national debutante, at The National Debutante Cotillion and Thanksgiving Ball in Washington, D.C. She graduated from Princeton University in 2006 with an A.B. in anthropology after completing a 202-page senior thesis, titled "Flow in Rowing", under the supervision of Carolyn M. Rouse.^[3] At Princeton, Lind received the C. Otto von Kienbusch Sportswoman of the Year Award, given to a Princeton senior woman of high scholastic rank who has demonstrated general proficiency in athletics and qualities of a true sportswoman, as well as the Carol P. Brown Senior Woman Award by her Princeton teammates for being a source of inspiration, dedication, and perseverance in pursuit of excellence. Lind pursued an M.B.A. with an accounting concentration at Rider University, in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, graduating in December 2010.

References

^ World Rowing, 2014 Top Ten Rowers
^ "How do we try and beat the pain barrier to achieve better performance?". International Rowing Federation. August 16, 2016. Retrieved November 4, 2017.
^ Lind, Caroline Mundil (2006). "Flow in Rowing". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

External links

Lind Consulting
Caroline Lind on Twitter
Caroline Lind – National Team rower profile at USRowing
Visualizing the Perfect Race

Olympic champions – Women's coxed eight

1976: Ahrenholz, Ebert, Goretzki, Kallies, Knetsch, Lehmann, Müller, Richter, Wilke (GDR)

1980: Boesler, Köpke, Kühn, Metze, Neisser, Richter, Sandig, Schütz, Wilke (GDR)

1984: Beard, Bower, Flanagan, Graves, Keeler, Metcalf, Norelius, O'Steen, Thorsness (USA)

1988: Balthasar, Haacker, Kluge, Neunast, Schröer, Stange, Strauch, Wild, Zeidler (GDR)

1992: Barnes, Crawford, Delehanty, Heddle, McBean, Monroe, Taylor, Thompson, Worthington (CAN)

1996: Cochela, Gafencu, Georgescu, Ignat, Lipă, Olteanu, Popescu, Spîrcu, Tănase (ROU)

2000: Cochela, Damian, Dumitrache, Gafencu, Georgescu, Ignat, Lipă, Olteanu, Susanu (ROU)

2004: Bărăscu, Damian, Florea, Gafencu, Georgescu, Ignat, Lipă, Papuc, Susanu (ROU)

2008: Cafaro, Shoop, Goodale, Logan, Cummins, Francia, Lind, Davies, Whipple (USA)

2012: Cafaro, Francia, Lofgren, Ritzel, Musnicki, Logan, Lind, Davies, Whipple (USA)

2016: Regan, Simmonds, Polk, Schmetterling, Gobbo, Musnicki, Logan, Elmore, Snyder (USA)

2020: Roman, Gruchalla-Wesierski, Roper, Proske, Grainger, Mailey, Payne, Wasteneys, Kit (CAN)

v t e World champions – Women's eight
1974: (Dobler, Lehmann, Richter, Schwede, Ahrenholz, Müller, Blanke, Mosig, cox Brincker) 1975: (Goretzki, Knetsch, Richter, Schwede, Kallies, Neu, Nitsche, Mosig, cox Wilke) 1977: (Bügel, Steindorf, Lohs, Neisser, Sandig, Kurth, Schwede, Metze, cox Heß) 1978: (Yermakova, Paziun, Antoniuk, Bunjak, Dergatchenko, Umanets, Tereshina, Pivovarova, cox Frolova) 1979: (Antoniuk, Bunjak, Dergatchenko, Yermakova, Paziun, Tereshina, Umanets, Pivovarova, cox Frolova) 1981: (Baltutite, Teterina, Tereshina, Yatsenko, Makushkina, Shvetsova, Umanets, Paziun, cox Frolova) 1982: (Makushkina, Konopleva, Umanets, Tereshina, Yatsenko, Studneva, Doligaida, Stone, cox Frolova) 1983: (Stone, Averyanova, Konopleva, Studneva, Umanets, Tereshina, Yatsenko, Makushkina, cox Khokhlova) 1985: (Pukhayeva, Zakyrova, Tereshina, Suprun, Znak, Teterina, Yatsenko, Averyanova, cox Khokhlova) 1986: (Tereshina, Suprun, Sakirova, Pukhayeva, Znak, Teterina, Averyanova, Tsessiunaite, cox Khokhlova) 1987: (Vîrlan, Trașcă, Țicanu, Arba, Chelariu, Necula, Homeghi, Toader, cox Oancia) 1989: (Bălan, Curelea, Tănase, Soare, Chelariu, Neculai, Leonte, Armășescu, cox Oancia) 1990: (Șnep, Bobeică, Burcică, Cochela, Curela, Oprea, Popescu, Ciucanu-Robu, cox Nedelcu) 1991: (Barnes, Delehanty, Doey, Heddle, Mahon, McBean, Monroe, Taylor, cox Thompson) 1993: (Alupei, Bobeică, Cochela, Doroftei, Ignat, Neculai, Olteanu, Tănase, cox Ilie) 1994: (Haacker, Klapheck, Schmidt, Martin, Pyritz, Rehaag, Wagner, Werremeier, cox Schnell) 1995: (Dore, Fallon, Fuller, Kakela, Korholz, E. McCagg, M. McCagg, Tranel-Michini, cox Farooq) 1997: (Damian, Susanu, Olteanu, Cazac, Gafencu, Cochela, Ignat, Tănase, cox Georgescu) 1998: (Cazac, Cochela, Damian, Dumitrache, Gafencu, Ignat, Olteanu, Susanu, cox Georgescu) 1999: (Damian, Dumitrache, Ignat, Olteanu, Popescu, Spîrcu, Susanu, Bărăscu, cox Georgescu) 2001: (Winter, Lutz, Wilson, Robinson, Martin, Sattin, Roberts, Larsen, cox Bilson) 2002: (Johnson, Peirce, Davies, Urtasun, Marten, Cox, Mickelson, Mackenzie, cox Whipple) 2003: (Hipler, Pyritz, Tucholke, Holthaus, Schmidt, Zimmermann, Günther, Wech, cox Ruppel) 2005: (Outhwaite, Selby Smith, Mills, Hornsey, Martin, Chew, Frasca, Heard, cox Patrick) 2006: (Sickler, Cooke, Goodale, Shoop, Mickelson, Francia, Lind, Davies, cox Whipple) 2007: (Sickler, Shoop, Goodale, Magee, Mickelson, Francia, Lind, Davies, cox Whipple) 2009: (Cafaro, Allen, Larsen-Strecker, Francia, Goodale, Shoop, Lind, Glessner, cox Snyder) 2010: (Goodale, Polk, Redman, Ritzel, Lofgren, Logan, Musnicki, Glessner, cox Whipple) 2011: (Lofgren, Francia, Musnicki, Ritzel, Redman, Polk, Lind, Logan, cox Whipple) 2013: (Polk, Simmonds, Regan, Schmetterling, Luczak, Musnicki, Opitz, Lind, cox Snyder) 2014: (Opitz, Musnicki, Polk, Schmetterling, Luczak, Lind, Logan, Robbins, cox Snyder) 2015: (Opitz, Musnicki, Polk, Schmetterling, Regan, Simmonds, Gobbo, Robbins, cox Snyder) 2017: (Vrînceanu, Bejinariu, Petrilă, Popa, Bereș, Tîlvescu, Boguș, Oprea, cox Druncea) 2018: (O'Brien, Mueller, Opitz, Doonan, Moffat, Eisser, Regan, Coffey, cox Guregian) 2019: (Greenslade, Dyke, Spoors, Bevan, Prendergast, Williams, Ross, Gowler, cox Shepherd) 2022: (Rusu, Buhuș, Ailincăi, Tivodariu, M. Bereș, A. Bereș, Vrînceanu, Radiș, cox Petreanu) 2023: (Rusu, Anghel, Adam, Buhuș, M. Bereș, Tivodariu, Vrînceanu, A. Bereș, cox Petreanu)

World champions – Women's eight